Collaborated with our community empowerment director and local leaders on successful campaigns to connect our viewers with resources. Developed campaigns to educate and empower our community. Organized and delegated workflow for producers, reporters, photographers, digital content producers and editors. Supervised production, creative services, and engineering personnel during the execution of our newscasts and coverage of breaking news.Prepared and managed our newsroom budget, including forecasting expenses in the department.Maintained newscast production values of the programs produced by the news department. Monitored ratings for news programs and maintained ratings growth during critical ratings periods.Responsible for setting the newsroom philosophy, policies, vision and direction.Back-up producer for our mid-morning and early newscasts. Helped our news team coordinate their assignments and interviews.

Hired, trained and supervised our news producers, videojournalists, photographers, editors and production personnel. In charge of all technical operations for the news department, supervised photographers, editors and technical operations personnelResponsible for managing the news teams schedules and special projects. Collaborated with other departments at our station to promote and execute community events for our viewers. Organized our news gathering operations by ENG, satellite and mobile broadband. Responsible for organizing our civic engagement campaigns, “Destino 2014” & “Destino 2016 and weekend affairs shows.

Responsible for helping our sales team meet their revenue goals by producing news segments for their clients could sponsor. Organized and delegated workflow for producers, reporters, photographers and editors. Collaborated with community affairs director, civic leaders, non-profit groups and community groups on successful community service campaigns, events and phone banks. Created a safety campaign for Spanish speakers called “En Su Comunidad” (In Your Community), an event where underserved communities built relationships with their local safety departments (Police, Fire, EMS) in Travis County in 2007. Developed a Sunday sports show "Contacto Deportivo" which added extra revenue for our station and became the # 1 sports show in our DMA from 2007 to 2009. Responsible for responding to our community's needs by developing news segments that connected them to resources. Prepared and managed newsroom budget, including forecasting expenses in the department. Created a strategy to promote our news content and initiatives on our properties, which included our newscasts, social media platforms, radio stations and website. Maintained newscast production values of the programs produced by the news department.

Assisted in the development and launch of our new Spanish news station, KAKW Noticias 62. Coordinated coverage and logistics of breaking and developing news by strategically organizing assignments for reporters and photographers. Arranged interviews, developed and maintained news sources and gathered research material for our investigative reports. Organized the style and format of the show, and maintained quality control, continuity, and timing during the live newscast. Communicated technical details of our newscasts with our production personnel. Periodically met with the public affairs department over the creation of community campaigns, phone banks and events.Helped our news director hire new team members. Edited the majority of the videos for our newscasts.

Worked closely with News Director to meet the future needs for our news team, approved and prepared logistics of our special projects, including our investigative reports. Helped the News Director during meetings with local leaders and non-profits and created our final plans to execute our community campaigns. Responsible for selecting and approving our news content and formatting our news rundowns.Coordinated news assignments for our news and production staff. Assisted in the recruitment of new staff and organized the schedules of our news personnel.Arranged live shots and feeds with our engineering and satellite departments. Reviewed stories for accuracy and ethical standards.